Mistake of I Contest of Microrrelatos Bernardo of the Carpio

WDSC_9189First of all, we apologize to the participants for the delay in announcing the result of the mistake of this contest.

Also we thank from here all the candidates for his participation.

The organization of the same one remained exceeded before the answer received in this first call.

The councillorship of culture of this small population of Carpio Bernardo (Province of Salamanca) proposed the contest integrating it in the program of holidays of San Miguel 2009, with the intention of claiming the figure of Bernardo del Carpio, our local hero. Why across a literary event? Precisely because Bernardo de Carpio was for centuries an inspiration source for many writers. Some of the size of Lope de Vega (Félix Lope of Vega Carpio) who was saying to be a descendant of the personage in question going so far as to use like his the coat of arms of Cistercian. Precisamente porque Bernardo de Carpio fue durante siglos fuente de inspiración para muchos literatos. Algunos de la talla de Lope de Vega (Félix Lope de Vega Carpio) que decía ser descendiente del personaje en cuestión llegando a utilizar como suyo el escudo de armas de Bernardo.

It is documented the fact that Miguel de Cervantes died without making a novel finished narrating the exploits of the good Cistercian one. And the list does not end here. But perhaps it is better to sum the legend up: Pero quizás sea mejor resumir la leyenda:

Bernardo del Carpio

Cistercian it had like parents to two furtive lovers who paid face his bravery. The progenitora, Jimena, was the sister of King Alfonso II the Chaste one. This one got into a passion on having received the news about the town hall not withstood by him. Father of the creature, shut the count of Saldaña up in the castle of Moon (after extracting previously the eyes) and it confined the mother in a convent of for life. Éste montó en cólera al recibir la noticia del ayuntamiento no consentido por él. Al conde de Saldaña, padre de la criatura, lo encerró en el castillo de Luna (tras sacarle previamente los ojos) y a la madre la confinó en un convento de por vida.

The child was not stopping being a nephew of the monarch and this one treated it as such, without any resentment. It grew in the court and turned into a formidable warrior. The happiness of the boy truncated the same day that knew, by means of a secret, the luck of his parents. Immediately it requested the king his liberation. And this one refused. This way the heirs of the crown did successively. La felicidad del muchacho se truncó el mismo día que conoció, por medio de una confidencia, la suerte de sus padres. Inmediatamente rogó al rey su liberación. Y este se negó. Así hicieron sucesivamente los herederos de la corona.

Before the denial of a third monarch our gentleman stops begging. He gets fed up … and rebels.

It is in this moment when he decides to found the initial nucleus of the current town of Carpio Bernardo, constructing a castle and inviting to repopulate the environment. This way the general chronicle of Alfonso X testifies it. And from here it fights against the kingdom of León, in a quite explicit way of resigning from the supposed from Leon "nationality" that some of them attribute to him.  Y desde aquí lucha contra el reino de León, en una forma bastante explícita de renunciar a la supuesta “nacionalidad” leonesa que algunos le atribuyen.

In the end the from Leon king manages to cheat our good Cistercian one. In exchange for the fortification (which ruins can still be visited today in Carpio Bernardo) it liberates the father …: dead person! Cistercian, desperate, he decides to go into exile definitely. ¡muerto! Bernardo, despechado, decide exiliarse definitivamente.

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This is an extraordinarily shallow summary of a beautiful legend gathered in a few literary works.

The innovation is that Cistercian it seems to be able to jump from the legendary world to the history with more force that never. In an international congress celebrated not long ago in Oviedo some historians contributed information in this sense. But this is already different matter … Pero esto es ya otro asunto…

Carlos Sá

Member of the jury

The jury solves that the winning microrrelato of I Contest Bernardo del Carpio is the one that takes for title Autobiography of an inopportune one being the authoress Maria Jesus Arias Vega, with residence in Bilbao.

Our most sincere congratulations.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN INOPPORTUNE ONE

I was born to the grapes of a New Year's Eve and married the evening of 23 F.

One day I happened without calling and found my chief being proved a bikini.

When I felt indisposed and returned soon to house, I surprised my wife gone to bed with his lover.

I am inopportune and generous. I invited my mother to a big dinner with my first salary. To the wedding I gave free bar to the guests on the following day. I gave a few red leagues to my chief. And to my wife a weekend for two in a state-run hotel. A mi jefe le regalé unas ligas rojas. Y a mi  mujer un fin de semana para dos en un  parador.

From Magazine Atticus we make the mistake of the contest public and congratulate to all all that have taken part in the same one giving, especially, the congratulations to the winner of I Contest of Microrrelatos Bernardo of the Carpio, Maria Jesus Arias Vega.

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